San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-07-12
EDITORIAL BREvITIEs


at least 20 days In the common jail for
every Oflense would soon abate the nuis-
apce.
Boston takes the cashier cake in the
person of Chas. Cushing Barry, who has
been fifty years with the City bank and
has never once turned his toes towards
Canada.
The Paris News classes the G.. A. Il.
with the Chicago anarchists. he News
was born In gall, christened In vinegar,
and has fed on sour grass ever since the
surrender OF Lee.
The st. Louis Sunday law was short.
lived. 1t spread itself out over too
much ground, and stretched itself so
thin In spots that 1t could not hold
water.
THE latest definition of a "clOud with
a silver lining" Is cOIOred boy who has
sw allowed mOuthful Of dimes. After
snch silver lined clouds look out for
squalls In this country.
The section OF country lying In be-
tween this city and Burnet Is the dryest
section in all Texas, and yet this is only
the third year la thirty years that farm
ers in that region have failed to make a
crop. Texas Is not as dry as IL Is
painted.
The county commissioners who spend
a few hours Of few DAYS of every month
in the courthouse furnace will retain the
uncomfortable sweat box and probably
expend a few more thousands upon It..
In one particular Ii meets the ends OF its
creation. 1t Is a great place to swear
in.
Los Angeles, which has quadrupled
Its taxes In four years, revels In q native
fuel, a solidifed coal oil, or the residium
OF the free oil, which Is found in the
neighbour z hills. Why not set fire to
the hills In winter and evspOrate the
moisture which envelopes that section
like wet blanket? By doing so 1t
might be made makeshift for invalids.
The man who crowded on all sail to
get there first, despite the remonstrances
OF his yacht load Of women and children
whom he capsiZed and drowned, should
be Indicted for msnslaughter and given
the full penalty OF the law, II he was
not drowned along with his victims.
such reckless disregard OF life is first
cousin to willful murder.
The guests at Hot Springs, Ark, have
found out that the hotel prOprietOrs
charge more for the reputation of their
houses than for their accommodations.
Real estate owners do the same thing
sometimes on the eve of q bOOm-anG
they only succeed in soaring 1t away.
JUDGING from the returns, the importa-
ton Of Mexican mares Ostensibly for
breeding purposes and actually for trad
ing purposes will soon be numbered
among the obsolete arts.==Uncle Sans
seizures render the experiment costly
one Law even in Texas will soon have
it's righteous terrors.
The resolutions published in yester-
days LIGHT are conclusive as showing
that no antagonism exists between the
Liquor Dealers association and the an
ii prohibition committee. This cOndi-
ton OF things is satisfactory. A house
divided against itself becomes very dry.
The srming OF trains in order to repel
the attacks of highway men may entail
little expense upon the companies, but
il will he effective A few cold robbers
will operate as al sntldOte to this train
quitting business, ard will hold over a
detective agency as etleCtuRlly as a
royal flush over pair.
The Missouri bourbons are moving
heaven and earth to secure the attend
ance OF Grover Cleveland in their big
bridge city this fall. IT'S well. The
more this people know of Grover, the
first, the more certain is he to retire to
speedy ObsCurity as Grover the last.
The Waco Examiner draws blood
from the Paris News-demOCTatic blood.
The Examiner insists that prohibition is
inimicsl to democracy and destructive
Of it. The News contends that Its own
democracy is prohibition proof, and re-
pudiates he censorship OF Barlow. Go
1t, We Kilkenny cats.
IT is hot in Texas, but sunstrOkes are
rare. The natives die fast enough, and
many go to bed with their boots or, but
the mortality bills are not five per cent.
Of the population. Better remain at
home and live rather than thrOng the
eastern cities and die.
The evidence from Atlanta, Ga, as to
the actual results OfprOhibitiOn are alto
gether too conflicting TO be depended
upon. Hon John Goodwin is probably
as near the truth as any one when he
says; "Our people are about evenly d.
vided in opinion as to the effect of pro-
hibitiOn on business"
SAN ANTONIO has handled the 1902 ,3l2
hounds of wool which came 10 her mar
ket this year easily and unOstentatiOus-
". The amount for the year. to date, Ia
a little in excess of last years receipts
for fret six months and shows that des-
pite all reports of drOuth, death and
disaster the spring wool clip Of 1887 has
not fallen below that Of last year.
The Fort Worth Gazette kindly vol
unteers to aid Dallas in paying for OPP
eva house occupation by the tate
Teachers association. The Dallas Times
refuses to thus impOverish the Fort and
suggests that the Gazette apply the
money to paying the police force around
the "HAlf-ACre." These journalistic
amenities tighten the lahOrs Of the sane
tum, and gild the darkness OF disagree
able duties with glory like the sun.
No scheme which looks toward the
turning Of San Antonio or San Pedro
river into an open sewer should be tOler-
ated by our citizens for one moment. If
the health board and the council do not
see this already the citizens do. There
is but one remedy for all the evil COM
planned over. That remedy ia a proper
system Of sewerage, and for II the peO-
pie of this city have been vainly crying
10 these many months.
The divisions that the prohibition
wing OF the democratic party have
made In the ranks Of the solid bourbons
Of Texas are already calling IOrth tear
full farewells from those who fathOm the
depth of this gulf OF separation. The
republican orators who have taken the
stump for prohibition are wise as far as
olinching the fact of democratic diviAlon
goes. The decree which ordered the
vote on this amendment was reyOlu-
tionary decree. Ii was divisional In its
nature, disentegrating in it's tendencies
and as certain to divide the democratic
party asunder as the behests OF that fool
fate which hurried a few disgruntled